On Tuesday, June 8 at 5 a.m., the 13 members of the Golden Bear FC (aka Western New England College CISB Seminar Abroad 2010: FIFA World Cup/South Africa program) will board a bus in front of Deliso Hall and begin our journey that will take us from JFK International in Queens to Johannesburg, with a brief stopover in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. We have been waiting for months in anticipation of this moment, which is finally upon us. Among our planned activities is a behind-the-scenes tour of the FIFA International Broadcast Center, which is the media nerve center that allows fans in 200+ countries to be tuned in to the spectacle that is the World Cup. We will visit Soweto, the township famous for the 1976 uprisings in protest of the then-government's apartheid policy, as well as boyhood homes to Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Of course, we will not pass up the opportunity to photograph South Africa's "Big Five," which we hope to see at Pilanesburg National Park and Game Reserve. And oh, yes . . . since we will be in country during the once-in-every-four-years playing of the World Cup, we will take in at least four matches, including the June 11 opener between South Africa and Mexico, and the USA-England smackdown on June 12. Stay tuned for dispatches from across the pond!
Sunday, June 6, 2010
South Africa or Bust!
On Tuesday, June 8 at 5 a.m., the 13 members of the Golden Bear FC (aka Western New England College CISB Seminar Abroad 2010: FIFA World Cup/South Africa program) will board a bus in front of Deliso Hall and begin our journey that will take us from JFK International in Queens to Johannesburg, with a brief stopover in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. We have been waiting for months in anticipation of this moment, which is finally upon us. Among our planned activities is a behind-the-scenes tour of the FIFA International Broadcast Center, which is the media nerve center that allows fans in 200+ countries to be tuned in to the spectacle that is the World Cup. We will visit Soweto, the township famous for the 1976 uprisings in protest of the then-government's apartheid policy, as well as boyhood homes to Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Of course, we will not pass up the opportunity to photograph South Africa's "Big Five," which we hope to see at Pilanesburg National Park and Game Reserve. And oh, yes . . . since we will be in country during the once-in-every-four-years playing of the World Cup, we will take in at least four matches, including the June 11 opener between South Africa and Mexico, and the USA-England smackdown on June 12. Stay tuned for dispatches from across the pond!
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